Guide to the Collections held by the Fawcett Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

Minutes of Council (1 vol., 37pp), June 1912 - June 1919 (File 1/1 [Box 37])

Minutes of Executive Committee (3 vols., 750pp), February 1910 - June 1919 (File 1/2-4 [Boxes 37-38])

Minutes of Finance and Settlement Sub-Committee (2 vols., 315pp), November 1913 - June 1919 (File 1/5-6 [Box 37])

Minutes of Country Organisation Committee (1 vol. 168pp), March 1912 - July 1914 (File 1/7 [Box 37])

Minutes of Literature Sub-Committee (1 vol., 33pp), November 1913 - July 1915 (File 1/8 [Box 37])

Annual reports (1 vol., 291pp), 1910 - 1919 (File 2/1 [Box 37])

Minutes of Council, July 1919 - July 1938 (File 1/1-7 [Boxes 3-7])

Pages 1-79 of Vol. 1 comprise minutes of the Joint Council of Women's Emigration Societies, April 1917-July 1919.

Most of the volumes contain reports of the Executive Committee.

(7 vols., 1868pp)

Minutes of Executive Committee (7 vols., 2189pp), January 1920 - June 1967 (File 1/8-14 [Boxes 8-13])

Minutes of Finance Committee (5 vols., 1092pp), December 1919 - December 1964 (File 1/15-19 [Boxes 13-16])

Minutes of miscellaneous committees (1 vol., 254pp), 1920 - 1927 (File 1/20 [Box 16])

Includes Australian Subcommittee, 1922-1923.

Minutes of miscellaneous subcommittees (1 vol., 44pp), 1929 - 1939 (File 1/21 [Box 16])

Minutes of Junior Branch Subcommittee (1 vol., 37pp), July 1925 - September 1930 (File 1/22 [Box 16])

Minutes of Training Centre Committee (1 vol., 93pp), March 1929 - May 1930 (File 1/23 [Box 17])

Minutes of Training Hostel Subcommittee (1 vol., 75pp), May 1930 - March 1931 (File 1/24 [Box 17])

Minutes of Australia and New Zealand Committee (1 vol., 126pp), June 1928 - December 1938 (File 1/32 [Box 20])

Minutes of Schoolgirls Oversea Tour Subcommittee (1 vol., 35pp), June 1927 - May 1930 (File 1/33 [Box 20])

Minutes of Schoolgirls Oversea Tour Committee (1 vol., 47pp), January 1934 - November 1938 (File 1/34 [Box 20])

Minutes and correspondence concerning conference between Executive Committee and New Zealand and Australian Panel (27pp), June 1920 (File 1/35 [Box 19] File 126)

File of correspondence and minutes concerning Oversea Settlement Office Women's Advisory Committee, 1919 - 1922 (File 1/36-38 [Box 19])

Comprises correspondence of A.C. Franklin and Gladys Pott of Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women with G.F. Plant, T.C. Macughten, L. Davy, T. Pughe, E. Royden, E. Thompson, M. Glyn, Oversea Settlement Office, Women's Legion, Service Women's Association, Church Army and Women's Royal Naval Service. There are also minutes of War Services Advisory Committee, Oversea Settlement Office Women's Advisory Committee, and Joint Council of Women's Emigration Societies.

(158pp)

Annual reports (4 vols., 925pp), 1920 - 1935 (File 2/1-4)

Annual reports (680pp), 1936 - 1963 (File 2/5 [Box 21])

Notebook of Lady Knox (File 11/1 [Box 22])

Contains notes on emigrants and people in overseas countries willing to help immigrants, including Australia and New Zealand.

(41pp)

Pamphlets: Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women. Aims, organisation and work. London (4pp), 1924 (File 12/ [Box 21])

Pamphlets: Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women. Opportunities overseas for women . London (7pp), 1934 (File 12/ [Box 21])

Pamphlets: Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women. Australia, the land of hope and sunshine; how women can get there and what they say of it . London (12pp), 1938 (File 12/9 [Box 21])

Pamphlets: Ellen Cumber. Report to Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women on the Australian tour of the General Secretary (31pp), February 1951 - May 1951 (File 12/16 [Box 21])

Pamphlets: Ellen Cumber. Report to Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women on the New Zealand tour of the General Secretary (15pp), May 1951 - June 1951 (File 12/17 [Box 21])

B. Goddard (Kyabram, Victoria) to H. Billinghurst, 22 April 1891 (File)

Excessive borrowing and expenditure by Victorian Government; Trades Hall rules supreme.

Three cuttings from Argus and other Melbourne newspapers concerning loan expenditure and criticisms of H. Billinghurst of London and Westminster Bank. (File)

M. Macfie (Melbourne) to H. Billinghurst, 18 May 1891 (File)

Failure of Victorian loan; believes English banks should refuse further loans until railways can pay interest; poor calibre of past and present Ministers, including A. Deakin; real wealth of country neglected.

Notebook 'To America and Back' (76pp), 1902 (File 1)

Manuscript of a lecture by Goldstein on her visit to United States, January-June 1902, referring to the voyage via New Zealand, Samoa and Hawaii, the journey from San Francisco to Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and Boston, photographs taken during the journey, and general impressions of American society, customs, politics and attitudes. The lecture does not deal with the International Women's Suffrage Conference at Washington.

Autograph Album (82pp), 1902 (File 2)

Volume of autographs and a few photographs of American women and delegates to International Women's Suffrage Conference at Washington.

Cutting Book on Senate Election Campaign (86pp), August 1903 - January 1904 (File 3)

Volume of newspaper cuttings and also leaflets and circulars, mostly concerning Goldstein's campaign in Victoria and women candidates generally. The cuttings are from the Argus, Age, Truth, Worker, Weekly Times, Punch, Herald, Tocsin, Bulletin, Advertiser (Adelaide), Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Review of Reviews (London) and country newspapers, August 1903-January 1904.

Diary (175pp), 1908 (File 4)

Large diary and commonplace book, kept intermittently throughout 1908. The entries refer to letters received and sent, meetings and deputations, Australian representation at the International Women's Suffrage Conference at Amsterdam and agitation to extend the franchise to women in Victoria. There are also cuttings from the Age, Argus, Herald, Women's Journal and Daily Telegraph on women's suffrage, women in the professions, the Amsterdam Conference, design of a Melbourne watchhouse, Australian electoral laws, English suffrage movement, wages for women, Women's Suffrage Bill passed by Victorian Parliament (November 1908), divorce law, domestic service. They include several articles written by Goldstein.

Album of letters, autographs and photographs (115pp), 1911 (File 5)

Goldstein was invited to England in 1911 by the Women's Social and Political Union. The album contains photographs of Ceylon, Port Said and many places and individuals in England, cuttings, letters of Harriet Newcomb (Australian and New Zealand Women Voters' Committee), Alice Henry and a few other correspondents, and autographs, including those of J. Galsworthy, J. Mansfield, H.M. Hyndman, J. Keir Hardie, H. Strangways, Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, Annie Kenney, Laurence Housman, H. Granville Barker, G. Bernard Shaw, Lady Selborne.

Manifold Book of letters written home, London (98pp), March 1919 (File 6)

The letters, which are not addressed to anyone, describe the voyage from Melbourne to London via Fremantle, Cocos Islands, Colombo, Bombay and Suez; the journey to Zurich; the Women's International Congress; the return journey to London via Paris; divisions in Britain and France over the Peace Terms; the continuance of the blockade of Central Europe; fears about Bolshevism.

Manifold Book of letters written home, London (101pp), July 1919 - November 1919 (File 7)

The letters differ from those in the earlier volume in being more impersonal, concentrating on events in Europe. Some of the letters were evidently intended for publication in Australia. Subjects discussed include the Peace Treaty; political situation in Russia and Hungary; League of Nations; Peace Day in London; effects of blockade on women and children in Europe and Middle East; British politics; British ignorance about Australia; industrial unrest; railway strike; democracy and capitalism; blockade of Russia; demobilisation of women; economic conditions in Britain.

Manuscript article on juvenile delinquents (21pp) (File 8)

Manuscript entitled 'The George Junior republic, or how to deal with the seemingly hopeless delinquent'. It describes the methods used by the George Junior republic in the United States in dealing with delinquent children.

Cutting book, 1872 - 1899 (File HM-1)

Cutting book (33pp), 1908 (File HM-2)

Commonplace book and cutting book (40pp), 1940 - 1948 (File HM-3)

New Zealand correspondence (128pp), 1940 - 1950 (File HM-4)

Correspondents include Gertrude Barnett (Napier), Kathleen Moore (Wellington), A. Helen Wake (Hastings), Muriel Lovell-Smith (Hastings), Jean Dawson (Wellington). They refer to mutual friends; activities of National Council of Women; appointment of women jurors in New Zealand; New Zealand politics; books; equal pay; wartime conditions in New Zealand. There are also some cuttings and two Newsletters of Family Planning Association of New Zealand (1948).

First women of Britain, Commonwealth and Empire (54pp), 1943 - 1948 (File HM-5)

Cutting book containing reports, many from Australian newspapers, of women who achieved 'firsts'. Examples are first woman mayor in London, first woman in Canadian diplomatic service, first woman trustee of Art Gallery of New South Wales, first woman professor at Oxford University, first woman coroner in England, first woman barrister in Sydney, first Maori woman doctor.

Australian women at war (118pp), 1942 - 1943 (File HM-6)

Volume of correspondence, leaflets, bulletins, constitution, agendas and cuttings of Council for Women in War Work. Correspondents include Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Marjorie Coppel, Helen Palmer. There is a copy of Mollie Bayne, ed. Australian women at war . (Melbourne, 1943)

Australian Federal election (50pp), 1943 (File HM-7)

Volume of cuttings and notes on women candidates in 1943 Federal election, especially Helen Maxwell (Progressive) in Balaclava electorate.

Australian notes and press cuttings (37pp), 1942 - 1944 (File HM-8)

Volume of notes, cuttings and leaflets on equal pay, careers for women, Council for Women in War Work, State elections, artist Stephanie Taylor, visit of Edith Summerskill to New Zealand. Includes diary notes, Oct.-December 1943.

Australian Women in Parliament and Councils (110pp), 1941 - 1943 (File HM-9)

Volume of notes, cuttings, leaflets, agendas, mainly concerning formation in 1942 of Women for Canberra Movement. The cuttings refer to Mabel Brookes, Elizabeth Couchman, Lavinia Weber, Helen Maxwell, Jessie Street, Enid Lyons, Dorothy Tangney, Constance Duncan.

Fight for Freedom (100pp), 1947 - 1950 (File HM-10)

Volume of notes, cuttings, leaflets and correspondence concerning celebrations by Suffragette Fellowship in Sydney of anniversaries of birth of Emmeline Pankhurst and achievement of women's suffrage in Britain. Correspondents include Adela Pankhurst Walsh, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Edith Summerskill. There are also newsletters of Suffragette Fellowship and Women's Freedom League and obituaries of Helen Archdale, Flora Drummond, Ada Bach and other suffragettes.

Miscellaneous press cuttings (52pp), 1948 - 1950 (File HM-11)

Volume of cuttings on women who achieved 'firsts' and obituaries of Vida Goldstein, Louisa Macdonald, Eleanor Glencross, Dame Constance D'Arcy, Ruby Davy. There is also a letter of Helen Wake (Hastings, N.Z.)

Journal, Australia (50pp), 1947 - 1948 (File HM-12/1)

Very brief entries, recording letters received and sent, visitors and special events, kept while How-Martyn was living in Sydney.

Personal correspondence (114pp), 1949 - 1950 (File HM-12/2)

Volume recording letters received and sent and containing cuttings and some loose letters. Correspondents include Marie Stopes, Elspeth Huxley, Sir John Russell, Elisabeth Hobbs, Prof. W.E. Gye (who visited Australia in 1949).

New Zealand notes, cuttings, correspondence, photographs (170pp), 1940 - 1941 (File HM-NZ/1)

How-Martyn arrived in Wellington in October 1940 and visited Wanganui, Palmerston North, Timaru, Dunedin, Christchurch, Havelock North, Hastings and Auckland. She left for Australia in October 1941. The volume contains letters, notes on meetings and functions, articles by or about How-Martyn, and general articles on women's issues and New Zealand. Correspondents include Mary Dreaver (Wellington), W.J. Rogers (Wanganui), Edith Riggis (Havelock North). There are also leaflets of the New Zealand Women Teachers' Association, Pan-Pacific Women's Association, and Workers Educational Association.

New Zealand notes, cuttings, correspondence, photographs (200pp), 1940 - 1951 (File HM-NZ/2)

The volume contains letters (mostly dated 1940-1941), notes of meetings and interviews, and cuttings and articles on New Zealand, sexual equality, family planning, women in politics, National Council of Women, and Wokers Educational Association, Correspondents include W.E. Barnard (Wellington), Helen Wake (Hastings), Marie Griffin (Auckland), Muriel Lovell-Smith (Hastings), Kathleen Moore (Wellington), Gertrude Barnett (Napier), Jeannie Dawson (Wellington), A. Barrington (Wellington). There are also leaflets of the Sex Hygiene and Birth Regulation Society, Family Planning Association of New Zealand, and New Zealand Federation of University Women.

Other letters received by How-Martyn, especially from suffragettes and women in politics may be sound in the Autograph Collection.

Legal status of women, 1937 - 1960 (File File 1 [Box 86])

Papers sent to Mackenzie on legal status of women in N.S.W. (24pp), South Australia (9pp), Tasmania (7pp), Western Australia (15pp), Queensland (3pp) and Victoria (12pp), together with covering letters of Z. Cowen (Melbourne), R. Anderson (Canberra), I. McCall (Perth), Gwenda Sargeant (Adelaide), 1959-1960. There are also earlier papers prepared by the Australian Federation of Women Voters for the League of Nations in 1937 and the British Commonwealth League Conference in 1951.

Equal pay for equal work, 1953 - 1960 (File File 2 [Box 86])

Miscellaneous papers collected by Mackenzie including resume of Australian Council of Trade Unions activities on equal pay (1953-1959), issues of Equality (1956-1959), report of N.S.W. Teachers Federation on A.C.T.U. Conference on Equal Pay (1958), notes of A.C.T.U. deputation to Minister of Labour and National Service (1957), N.S.W. Labor Council resolutions on equal pay (1958, 1960), extracts from Hansards (1958-1959), statement by National Council of Women of Victoria, judgment of N.S.W. Industrial Commission in Clerks (State) award (1959), and minutes of A.C.T.U. Equal Pay Committee (1959).

Women's Organisations, 1954 - 1960 (File File 3 [Box 87])

Includes constitution of Australian Federation of Women Voters (1954), annual reports of League of Women Voters of N.S.W. (1956-1957) and League of Women Voters of South Australia (1954-1955), a paper on history and organization of National Council of Women (1958), Newsletter of National Council of Women (1958-1959) and a note on Australian Women's Guild of Empire. The file also contains a scheme for equal opportunity in the teaching service, notes on employment of women in Public Service, paper on women in the legal profession, and notes on position of women under Commonwealth legislation (1960).

Local Government Papers, 1944 - 1960 (File File 4 [Box 87])

Very miscellaneous papers including 1944/45 report of the Council for Women in War Work, essay by Bernice Collins on expansion of voluntary work by women, paper on 1956 survey of professional social workers in N.S.W., paper on part-time work, issues of Emergency Housekeeper (1958-1959), newsletters of N.S.W. branch of Australian Local Government Women's Association (1960), and notes taken from various publications and censuses.

Newspaper cuttings, 1956 - 1960 (File File 5 [Box 87])

Miscellaneous cuttings from Australian newspapers, 1956-1960, mainly concerning conferences of women's organizations, working women, equal pay, women in important and unusual occupations, and related subjects.

Margaret Jennings (Sydney) to Nutting, 2 January 1947 (File)

Sends copy of new edition of Australian Woman's Charter; proposed amendment to N.S.W. Married Women's Property Act to allow women to have money saved from housekeeping allowance.

Article on married women's property rights in Western Australia, November 1959 (File)

From International Women's News , vol. 54 (November 1959) (ff. 924-25.)